Young citizens and civic learning: two paradigms of citizenship in the digital age

Bennett, W. Lance; Wells, Carol L.; Rank, Allison

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“…(Faulks 2000, 6) Outside of the citizen journalism literature, debates about what constitutes citizenship are a major feature of a significant body of academic literature (Putnam 2000;Annette 2010). Research has challenged idealistic conceptions of citizen behavior in terms of traditional practices of engagement and participation, looking at the variation in both the degree to and means by which people practice their citizenship (Amnå and Ekman 2013;Eveland 2004;Graber 2004;Henn and Foard 2012;Hooghe and Dejaeghere 2007;Hustinx et al 2012;Livingstone and Markham 2008;Lund 2006;Schudson 1998;Walker 2002), particularly in relation to new media technologies (Bennett et al 2009;Coleman and Blumler 2012;Gerodimos 2008;Gil de Zúñiga et al 2012;Ikeda and Boase 2011;Kaufhold et al 2010;Pasek et al 2009;Scheufele and Nisbet 2002). Such literature highlights tensions within debates around citizenship, for instance in the distinction between civic and political citizenship (Heater 2004a(Heater , 2004bTheiss-Morse and Hibbing 2005;Annette 2010), revealing that the concept of the citizen is not an uncontested label to simply be tacked onto journalism.…”

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Theorizing Citizenship in Citizen Journalism

Campbell

2014

Digital Journalism

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New WalkLeicester LE1 7JA+44 (0)116 252 5294 vpc2@le.ac.uk 2 ABSTRACT Citizen journalism has become a prominent term referring to a variety of newsgathering and reporting practices conducted via a range of new digital technologies. The scholarly literature on citizen journalism, however, has tended to concentrate on its significance for journalism theory and practice whilst comparatively neglecting underlying questions about the theories of citizenship utilized within citizen journalism. This article examines the range of theories of citizenship at work in citizen journalism, highlighting problems in trying to locate citizen journalism practices and practitioners within definitional debates around citizenship. It explores how some theories construct citizen journalism as a tool for citizenship whilst others construct it as constituting a form of citizenship in its own right. The article identifies a range of problems within these theories in terms of their capacity to understand the relationship between citizen journalism and citizenship. It argues that fully understanding and situating citizen journalism requires moving beyond the journalismcentered focus which dominates the literature towards a consideration of citizen journalism that incorporates theories and practices of citizenship alongside those of journalism.

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Theorizing Citizenship in Citizen Journalism

Campbell

2014

Digital Journalism

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“…Bennett et al (2009) argue that the individualization linked to increasing reflexivity has caused a shift in how young people in particular engage with politics. They are "less inclined to feel a sense of duty to participate politically in conventional ways such as voting or following the news, while displaying a greater inclination to embrace issues that connect to lifestyle values, ranging from moral concerns to environmental quality" (Bennett, Wells, & Rank, 2009, p. 106).…”

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“…The first category encompasses civic experiences, such as civic participation, and includes a discussion of action-based civic experiences. The action-based civic experiences emerging in the diaries are analyzed in terms of Bennett's (2009) Furthermore, I will analyze and discuss civic experience as being mediatized, that is, being related to and moulded into experiences by media, which explicitly includes popular cultural media formats. Hepp speaks of the moulding forces of the media and argues that they need to be analyzed "in their netting with human action, especially (but not exclusively) with communicative action.…”

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“…To incorporate and understand new and alternative forms of engaging with politics and the public sphere, scholars have suggested notions such as do-it-yourself (Hartley, 2010), self-actualizing (Bennett, Wells, & Rank, 2009), and unlocated citizenship (van Zoonen, Visa, & Mihelja, 2010). These concepts, however often focus on action as the starting point for understanding citizenship as performance.…”

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Mapping civic experiences in Estonia

Kaun¹

2012

Communications

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The article concerns civic experiences beyond or prior to civic action. Approaching questions of civic culture and democracy by way of the rather broad notion of civic experience, the author suggests that democratic values and processes involving citizens' participation should be understood as deeply anchored in the lifeworld. The article establishes a perspective in which civic culture is understood from a holistic perspective as an experience. At the same time, the author is interested in the ways in which media are involved in that process, without assuming their predominance in fostering civic engagement and public connection. Drawing mainly on 20 solicited, open-ended online diaries with young adults from Narva, Tartu, and Tallinn in Estonia and the European Social Survey Round 5, the article proposes civic experience as a helpful notion to overcome the generic divide between utopian and dystopian views on the relationship between media and civic culture.

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“…All the while, expectations have remained in place for citizens to be dutiful observers of democratic rules embodied in political institutions (Bennett et al, 2009). The latter are, nevertheless, faced with a conspicuous appetite for direct action to effect social change from members of the body politic disenchanted with the politics-as-usual of representative democracy (Dalton, 2008).…”

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Protest communication ecologies

Mercea

Iannelli

Loader

2015

Information, Communication & Society

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link: The flurry of protests since the turn of the decade has sustained a growth area in the social sciences. The diversity of approaches to the various facets and concerns raised by the collective action of aggrieved groups the world over impresses through multidisciplinarity and the wealth of insights it has generated. This introduction to a special issue of the international journal Information, Communication and Society is an invitation to recover conceptual instruments-such as the ecological trope-that have fallen out of fashion in media and communication studies. We account for their fall from grace and explicate the rationale for seeking to reinsert them into the empirical terrain of interlocking media, communication practices and protest which we aim to both capture with theory and adopt as a starting point for further analytical innovation.Key words: protest, communication, media, ecology, social media, social movement Protest communication ecologies is an attempt to pin down a conceptual meeting point for areas of social enquiry addressing increasingly interconnected phenomena. Ecology is a longstanding trope denoting variability. It encapsulates multiple and layered interconnections among component parts and of the latter with their surrounding environment. In information sciences, ecology has been defined as a 'system of people, technologies, practices and values in a local setting ' (O'Day, 2000:36). The term 'system' signifies complexity of organisation where technologies imprint on human action which in turn adjusts technologies to local circumstances. Protest, on the other hand, has become a 1 Corresponding author. Email: dan.mercea.1@city.ac.uk 2 staple albeit non-institutional form of political participation (van Deth, 2014), which is coextensive with a heightened mediation of socio-political intercourse (Keane, 2013).In this special issue, we contemplate the local variability of protest, its expression, appeal, and ramifications. All the while, we keep sight of the participatory cultures that bridge or separate disparate instances of protest. This opening article provides an outline of these conceptual considerations and relates them to methodological conundrums and apposite reflections instigated by the keynote speakers at the international iCS Symposium Media ecologiesThe chief merit of the concept of 'ecology' is that it underscores the need to emplace interconnectedness as its origins, forms, implications and valorisations are pondered. Put differently, an ecology is by definition bounded. Therefore, it is coextensive with many other systems, which stand apart from it in one or more respects. It is this insight that has prompted Olsson (2010) to distinguish between three contemporary media ecologies: the broadcasting, the interactive and the participatory ecology. Retracing his classification back to McLuhan (1964) and the proposition that broadcasti...

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Young citizens and civic learning: two paradigms of citizenship in the digital age

Cited by 293 publications

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Theorizing Citizenship in Citizen Journalism

Theorizing Citizenship in Citizen Journalism

Mapping civic experiences in Estonia

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